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Federated Learning (FL) is a novel privacy-protection distributed machine learning paradigm that guarantees user privacy and prevents the risk of data leakage due to the advantage of the client's local training. Researchers have struggled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kangkang Sun , Xiaojin Zhang , Xi Lin , Gaolei Li , Jing Wang , Jianhua Li

Cross-silo federated learning (FL) allows data owners to train accurate machine learning models by benefiting from each others private datasets. Unfortunately, the model accuracy benefits of collaboration are often undermined by privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-08 Nikita Tsoy , Anna Mihalkova , Teodora Todorova , Nikola Konstantinov

Federated Learning provides a privacy-preserving paradigm for distributed learning, but suffers from statistical heterogeneity across clients. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) mitigates this issue by considering client-specific models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Ala Emrani , Amir Najafi , Abolfazl Motahari

Federated learning has emerged as a powerful framework for analysing distributed data, yet two challenges remain pivotal: heterogeneity across sites and privacy of local data. In this paper, we address both challenges within a federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mengchu Li , Ye Tian , Yang Feng , Yi Yu

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative training while ensuring data privacy across distributed edge devices, making it a popular solution for privacy-sensitive applications. However, FL faces significant challenges due to statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Huy Q. Le , Latif U. Khan , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) allows to train a massive amount of data privately due to its decentralized structure. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is commonly used for FL due to its good empirical performance, but sensitive user information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Muah Kim , Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for distributed machine learning. It enables collaborative learning among multiple clients, utilizing distributed data and computing resources. However, FL faces challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Hojat Allah Salehi , Md Jueal Mia , S. Sandeep Pradhan , M. Hadi Amini , Farhad Shirani

In the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the need for privacy and security in data processing has become paramount. As AI applications continue to expand, the collection and handling of sensitive data raise concerns about individual…

Despite Federated Learning (FL) employing gradient aggregation at the server for distributed training to prevent the privacy leakage of raw data, private information can still be divulged through the analysis of uploaded gradients from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianzhe Xiao , Yichen Li , Yu Zhou , Yining Qi , Yi Liu , Wei Wang , Haozhao Wang , Yi Wang , Ruixuan Li

Personalized federated learning has received an upsurge of attention due to the mediocre performance of conventional federated learning (FL) over heterogeneous data. Unlike conventional FL which trains a single global consensus model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jun Luo , Matias Mendieta , Chen Chen , Shandong Wu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without data sharing, yet participants face a fundamental challenge, e.g., simultaneously ensuring fairness across demographic groups while protecting sensitive client data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kangkang Sun , Jun Wu , Minyi Guo , Jianhua Li , Jianwei Huang

Federated machine learning leverages edge computing to develop models from network user data, but privacy in federated learning remains a major challenge. Techniques using differential privacy have been proposed to address this, but bring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timothy Stevens , Christian Skalka , Christelle Vincent , John Ring , Samuel Clark , Joseph Near

Federated learning enables training machine learning models while preserving the privacy of participants. Surprisingly, there is no differentially private distributed method for smooth, non-convex optimization problems. The reason is that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Egor Shulgin , Sarit Khirirat , Peter Richtárik

Differentially private federated learning is crucial for maintaining privacy in distributed environments. This paper investigates the challenges of high-dimensional estimation and inference under the constraints of differential privacy.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-26 Zhe Zhang , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang

To defend the inference attacks and mitigate the sensitive information leakages in Federated Learning (FL), client-level Differentially Private FL (DPFL) is the de-facto standard for privacy protection by clipping local updates and adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yifan Shi , Kang Wei , Li Shen , Yingqi Liu , Xueqian Wang , Bo Yuan , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

To defend against privacy leakage of user data, differential privacy is widely used in federated learning, but it is not free. The addition of noise randomly disrupts the semantic integrity of the model and this disturbance accumulates with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yuecheng Li , Lele Fu , Tong Wang , Jian Lou , Bin Chen , Lei Yang , Jian Shen , Zibin Zheng , Chuan Chen

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing their raw data. While FL enhances data privacy by design, it remains vulnerable…

Protecting sensitive health data while enabling collaborative analysis is a central challenge in healthcare. Traditional machine learning (ML) requires institutions to pool anonymized patient records, centralizing analytical development and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gaurang Sharma , Juha Pajula , Aada Illikainen , Markus Rautell , Noora Lipsonen , Petri Alhainen , Mika Hilvo